Loud By Design Bookings is an underground DJ and artist bookings agency from London, UK and was founded by Rachel in 2017. As an experienced agent who spent the last 15 years running SUF Bookings, the agency that was affiliated with Stay Up Forever, she created Loud By Design to better represent the changing musical styles of her artists, supporting and promoting the evolution of their individual works as well as seeking out new contacts to work with. The emphasis of Loud By Design is to represent, support and book quality dance music artists that have a strong reputation and solid history within the underground scene, both nationally and internationally, as well as offering diversity with artistic styles that range from techno and hard techno to breaks and acid,

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South West Londoner Mark Pember (AKA Meat Katie) has had a long history in Dance music. In his time he has recorded for such prestigious labels such as Wall of Sound, R&S Records, Kingsize, Bedrock, Perfecto, Renaissance, Skint Pember has also remixed & collaborated with Arthur Baker, U.N.K.L.E, Boy George, Deep Dish, D.Ramirez, Peace Division& James Zabelia, to name but a few.

Arguably its Mark’s work as a DJ that has really seen him shine, a world class performer with excellent technical ability and a great understanding of the dance-floor, he has built a reputation worldwide he has been a resident at Fabric Live & Dangerous Drums at the legendary Tresor club in Berlin. Those who have seen him play will know that it is his diversity and energy that has earned him such respect for his tough techno based style. This has seen him play across the globe alongside an eclectic group of DJs from Digitalism, Justice, Simian Mobile Disco, Soulwax, to Deep Dish, James Zabiela, Sasha & Digweed, Carl Cox, Armand Van Buren and Tiesto. He has supported live acts such as Chemical Brothers, Pendulum, Prodigy Basement Jaxx & Orbital to name but a few.

It is these djing skills that have led him to compile and mix compilations for such land mark series such as, Bedrock, Fabric Live & most recently Sessions’ for Ministry of Sound.

Not satisfied with being a world class dj producer the self confessed workaholic also founded the highly influence LOT49 imprint which he run from 2004 – 2015 (Along with Dylan Rhymes).
With a staggering 30 album & 134 Single releases under its belt Lot 49 maintained a reputation as being a taste-making label, never shy to experiment it featured artists such as, Dubfire , Audiojack, D.Ramirez, Elite Force, Phil Kieran, Lee Coombs, Robbie Rivera, Ben Coda, Marco Bailey, James Talk, Alex Metric, Evil 9 and obviously Meat Katie & Dylan Rhymes.

In June 2013 Mark started a brand new series of Podcasts entitled ‘Lowering The Tone’ the that explores all genres of underground dance music and also features reveling interviews with some of the scenes most established and influential Dj’s producers and industry leaders, Mark provides a unique insight into the inner workings of running a label and being a professional DJ/Producer in the digital age, in 2016 he bought in Ben Coda to host his own LTT shows and expand the reach into other genres, the pair plan to be hitting 2 episodes a month and also running a sister Q&A podcast called ‘Setting The Tone’ which they will jointly host.

April 2016 saw the launch of the Lowering The Tone Label which plans of focusing on the more Progressive side of Techno.

There is a fourth Meat Katie artist album is in the pipeline and will see the light of day late 2017.